Naming your venture is one of the first real decisions you make when starting a business, and one of the hardest to undo. If you are working out how to name your business in the UK, you need to understand the legal rules, the branding trade-offs and the true costs before you commit. Our view, after years of watching founders trip at this hurdle: the single bi...
The rise of women-led food businesses across the UK is not a diversity story. It is a commercial one. Food and drink brands built by women are no longer niche; they are reshaping how food is made, marketed and sold across the UK. And the latest retail data points to an uncomfortable truth for the industry: the bottleneck for women founders was never consumer demand. It was sh...
Planning a four-day week for your small business can feel like stepping into uncharted territory. Yet a growing number of UK firms have tested the model and report sharper focus, happier teams and stronger retention, with profits holding steady. For many women who started a business to gain control over their own time, it is also a way to extend that same pri...
Most UK authors ask the same question when they think about self-publishing income: “What’s realistic?” The honest answer is that earnings vary wildly. Some authors make enough to support themselves; many earn far less. The difference often isn’t talent. It comes down to expectations, numbers and knowing how royalties, pricing and costs actually work for self-published author...
Karolina Gudes is the founder of Kidora, a UK family platform for buying, selling and passing on children’s items. She is a mum of two from North Wales and one of Theo Paphitis’ #SBS Small Business Sunday winners.
One of the hardest decisions I have made while building Kidora was not d...